Out of the Main is a podcast celebrating the most accomplished era of musicianship and studio production, from the 70s to 80s, including yacht rock, AOR + more.

Born at Sea. Raised on Radio.
Joined August 2020
Climb aboard for artist interviews, music analysis + celebration...and even occasional tomfoolery. It's the #podcast for lovers of #YachtRock, west coast music from the late 70s and early 80s, and Modern Yacht alike! Listen along as we chat with the legendary artists themselves!
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🚨🎙️ **S7.E17: You Don’t Know Richard Marx** 🎙️🚨 Listener Jorn cashes in his chit as $upporter Jorn to rejoin the podcast, this time to make the case that one Richard Marx is anything BUT the pin-up balladeer with great hair we came to know (and love?) in the 1980s. 👇👇👇
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Is there really more to RM than meets the ear? Consider @Page99R + @tnixon16 convinced…to varying degrees. But one things’ for sure: If you wanted to follow the session cats after the yacht sank, this is most certainly one harbor in which to drop anchor and go looking! 👇👇
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🚨🎙️ **S7.E16: Rank + Review the Records: Steely Dan** 🎙️🚨 We must’ve lost our marbles! Because this week we are apportioning precious rubies (baby)—100 each, from @Page99R and @tnixon16 —the Steely Dan catalog, from Can’t Buy a Thrill up through Gaucho. 👇👇👇
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You should know the drill by now: take 100 marbles precious rubies (baby) and divide them among the discography as you find each album merits. But doing this with Steely Dan, you’re poking the bear, kicking the hornet’s nest, touching the third rail, or just plain rage baiting.
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Mr. @realDaneDonohue tells the story of how a chance encounter with Steven Tyler, Miles Davis and Bobby Womack would years later inspire what would become his favorite track of anything he's recorded across his career. Dane's new album, California Gold, drops Friday, y'all!
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Moments on the Main: Christopher Cross drummer Tommy Taylor recalls the story of the tracking of the drums on "Sailing." Hear him explain how, in essence, he collaborated with Toto great Jeff Porcaro to assemble what would become the iconic drum part that stood the test of time!
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🚨🎙️ **S7.E15: Dane Donohue, California Gold** 🎙️🚨 @realDaneDonohue returns! The first member of the Four-Time Guest Club, Dane is back to talk another album with us—this time, his third full-length LP, “California Gold,” dropping any day now!
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Dane still manages to regale @tnixon16 + @Page99R with even more untold stories from yesteryear, including his earliest recording sessions, his brush with Miles Davis, the one that got away in Woodstock, and many more!
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Listen as he and John break down from the inside the making of, and pending release for, “California Gold!” There’s gold in them here hills! 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your pods, or FIND, FOLLOW, LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE right here 👇👇👇 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…
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Monday Morning Moments on the Main: Jock Bartley of @firefallmusic recalls the moment a harmony was laid, a staple of the live show was born...and the moment Eric Clapton looked on from the control room. Full interview: youtu.be/zlGR8Yn4NVo
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One of @tnixon16's favorite Moments on the Main: What do you do when you're a first-time artist and a veteran producer retorts, "Well, you're no Eagles." Turns out, if you're a young @realDaneDonohue, you keep your thoughts to yourself and wait for good karma to have its day...
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One of @tnixon16's favorite Moments on the Main: What do you do when you're a first-time artist and a veteran producers retorts, "Well, you're no Eagles." Turns out, if you're a young @realDaneDonohue, you keep your thoughts to yourself and wait for good karma to have its day...
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🚨🎙️ **S7.E14.b: The Joy of Sax (Vol. II)** 🎙️🚨 Back for our second session of group sax! Let’s pick up right where we left off last week… @Page99R and @tnixon16 have covered the session cats for 7 seasons. But what about the sax players that were permanent members of bands?
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🚨🎙️ **S7.E14.a: The Joy of Sax (Vol. I)** 🎙️🚨 We’ve covered the session sax cats for 7 seasons. But what about the sax players from our era that were permanent fixtures in their respective bands—and in some cases, inextricably cemented in the band’s identity?! 👇👇👇
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Good takes like this 👇
Replying to @outofthemain
A place and a movement - great listen and you rightly identified its role as a precursor to Yacht Rock. The Section (Kortchmar et al) began as James Taylor’s back up and some of his 76’ album tunes are played on Yacht Rock Miami (the sound of Heaven).
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Moments on the Main: That time @TrisImboden confesses to dropping a stick during the tracking session for "This Is It." How did they keep the flubbed drum track they just HAD to have? Listen to Tris tell you himself... >> Catch the full interview on our Youtube channel! <<
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